Google Music helps you store your entire music collection in the cloud and listen to your favorite music online.
Google Music was launched in 2011, and it operates in various countries across the globe. It allows creating a playlist, listening to online radio, uploading your favorite iTunes, Windows Media Player and Groove Music library on Google’s servers, and provides a platform for online streaming. Another standout feature is Google Music’s ability to sync music to any device.
You may, at times, end up with multiple copies of the same music files. This will eventually lead to the clogging up of your music library and makes it really tough to keep track of songs. This can even lead up to the point where looking for a particular song can take a hell lot of time. Two files may appear to be different ones as they have different names, but both of them might be essentially the same song. This is where a duplicate file finder steps in to clear up the mess. And the results are refreshing, always!
Tricks For Your Smartphone
Here are a few very simple tricks that you might like to try out.
- App Refresh Trick
Simply play the song that has been duplicated, and once the song ends, proceed to refresh the app via the Settings.
- Reset Google Music Application
Navigate to the Settings menu of your phone and tap on Reset the Application.
Tricks For Your PC
Even though Google is yet to provide a suitable fix for the duplicate songs being created in the user library due to the uploader. Here are some fixes you can try out:
- Clone Files Checker: https://clonefileschecker.com/download/ibx/
You can easily track down Google Music duplicates with Clone Files Checker. The distinct features are given below:
- Cloud integration and support to Google Drive
- Automatically ignores zero-byte files, hidden files, operating system component and program files
- File size filters help you narrow the scan time. Example: Scan files above 2 MB and below 10 MB
- Configure Clone Files Checker to exclude sub folders or custom directories from the scan
- View file attributes with great ease (which can play a pivotal role in determining the file’s fate)
- Search all sorts of files, or custom file extensions you’d like
- Clone Files Checker automatically creates a backup of your files before deleting them. Hence you can easily restore data from the backup at any time, should the need arise
- Supports hard drive, external hard drives, removable media storage drives
- Supports various scan algorithms such as CRC32, MD5 and SHA1
- Intuitive and flexible user interface
- Quick and accurate scan
- Helps you recover tonnes of valuable disk space
- Use music tags to apply various search criterion
- Preview the music files before taking an action
- Works with various predefined criterion
- Collection of great tools – duplicate documents, music, videos and compressed files finder
- Grouping of duplicates makes the application unique
- Quick Fix allows users to take a universal course of action on all duplicates found
- Review & Fix lists out all results in a listbox so that you can review and take an appropriate action
- Optimized scan and detection with smart algorithms
- Ability to choose between retaining the original / latest version of each duplicate music file detected
Delete And Upload Library
The Google Forum post dedicated to this problem has seen a number of users delete their library and then re-upload the library. Smart usage of ID3 tags also comes in handy in some cases. Some users recommend uploading individual album folders rather than a bulk folder (containing numerous artists or an entire Music Archive folder). Even though none of these suggestions are guaranteed to do away the jinx, there is no harm done in trying them out.
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